Clergy were deprived of any social security rights as well.

Finally, transferability of social security rights within the Union is seriously lacking.

In what ways have the social security rights of the unemployed been curtailed in recent years?

The suggested amendment can indeed clarify the legal position of the assistants as far as their social security rights are concerned.

We must also facilitate the mobility of the workforce by promoting the recognition of pension and social security rights.

Its main aim is to ensure that workers moving within European Union territory do not suffer disadvantages in their social security rights.

Social security rights refer to rights stemming from pension schemes (old age, survivor, disability), unemployment insurance, health insurance, workers' compensation, and sickness benefits.

Regulation 1408/71 and Regulation 574/72 protect the social security rights of workers by coordinating the different national social security systems of Member States.

Madam President, in order to safeguard the freedom of movement of persons within the European Union, it is essential to safeguard their social security rights.

In the name of competitiveness and productivity, the aim is to reduce labour costs or non-wage costs, for which read step up exploitation and overturn social security rights.

However, I also challenge you to give your full attention to Union legislation to guarantee labour, salary, maternity and illness protection, and social security rights for domestic workers, both male and female.

International portability of social security benefits is therefore understood as the migrant's ability to preserve, maintain, and transfer acquired social security rights independent of nationality and country of residence.

The introduction of the common currency is accompanied by the breaking up of the so-called European social state, with dramatic repercussions for the employment, social and social security rights of working people.

The Convention provides protection for home workers, giving them equal rights with regard to workplace health and safety, social security rights, access to training, remuneration, minimum age of employment, maternity protection, and other rights.

We have voted against paragraph 1 of the motion for resolution which states that Article 42 of the Treaty of Amsterdam is to be the legal basis for securing social security rights for third-country citizens.

Ensuring that persons moving within the EU do not suffer disadvantages in their social security rights and consequently coordinating national social security legislation is, therefore, a crucial element, as a number of my fellow Members have said.

Moreover, there lies within it the desire to strengthen external border controls, implement new means of redress for individuals who encounter problems when exercising their rights, modernize social security rights and encourage language training and cultural exchanges.

Mr President, yesterday evening I agreed with the spokesman of the Group of the European People's Party that in the third line, after 'social security rights' , the words 'for example' should be inserted, as examples are given.

Scrap the shopping hours, the labor unions maintain, and you open the door to part-time workers deprived of full social security rights, who, in turn, threaten the position of full-time workers and their hefty packages of pensions, health and job security benefits.

International portability of social security rights allows international migrants, who have contributed to a social security scheme for some time in a particular country, to maintain acquired benefits or benefits in the process of being acquired when moving to another country.

ΕU employment policy aims to replace full/stable work with partial and temporary employment and, at the same time, overturn basic employment, wage and social security rights under the misleading title coined in Lisbon of 'sustainable development and full employment'.

People can then be confident that their social security rights travel with them, that their pensions are in order, regardless of where they are living or working, and that proper care is guaranteed, everywhere in Europe and not just for themselves but for their families too.

These legal services include advice on band names, partnership agreements between band members, social security rights and entitlement, and music licences - anything and everything relating to music, even including: 'Can a freight company hold on to my instruments/equipment because the tour promoter hasn't paid the bill?'

One would 'ring-fence' or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes.